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_aA Historical View of the Hindu Astronomy : _bFrom the Earliest Dawn of that Science in India to the Present Time / _cJohn Bentley. |
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_aPlace of publication not identified : _bpublisher not identified, _c1825. |
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_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press |
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_a1 online resource (334 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s). |
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| 520 | _aShrouded in poetry, the earliest accounts of Hindu astronomy can strike modern readers as obscure. They involve the marriage of the moon to twenty-seven princesses, a war between gods and giants, and shadows that give birth to planets. In this fascinating study, first published in Calcutta in 1823 and reissued here in the 1825 edition, John Bentley (c.1750-1824) strives to strip back the mythical aspects of the stories to reveal their foundations. He points out that early Hindu astronomers divided the night sky into twenty-seven sections; that a solar eclipse could have been described as an epic war between light and dark; and that Saturn is often observed in the Earth's shadow. Using data from modern astronomical tables, he dates events, texts and people, whether mythical or factual, as well as charting the history of Indian astronomy from its earliest records to its modern developments. | ||
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